Improved fish-bait



enonen r; THORP, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

12mm Patemt No. 96,288, M October 26,1869.

IMPROVED FISH- BAIT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and, making part ofthe same.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, Gnonen '1. Team, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and useful 'Fisli-Baitflto' be used in how or fyke-uets; and I do hereby declare the followi -ig is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in preparing a. cake of a certain mixture of "arious kinds of grain, which isto be used as a fish-bait in bow or fyke-nets.

To enable others to make and use my inve'ntion,-I will proceed to describe its composition, and the manner in which it ismade. Y

I take about equal parts of wheat, oats, rye, and corn, coarse-ground or cracked, mix the same into dough withwater, roll it out about one-quarter or three-eighths of an inch thick, and out it with a round cutter iutooakes about four inches in diame- -ter. It is thn baked in a medium oven.

The corn-meal may be omitted, without much detriment to the efficacy of the bait.

The fish-bait thus made holds well together; until nibbled off by the fish, and will keep sweet for at least forty-eight hours.

1 One or more of these cakes (four being about the usual niunber)'are placed as a bait inside a bow/0r i'yke-net. It is very attractive to the fish, and by it .a. much larger quantity maybe caught than by any other known bait.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lihe fish-bait made of one or more of the withinmentioned ingredients, and used substantially in the Witnesses: GEORGE 'r. moor.

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